The Sun. — London, England, 1808-07-26 00:00:00

I 1 SP4NI,§II P4PERS. • •. • EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE 01 , <9ARACOSSA, OF THE THIRD JULY. The day before yesterday,' the Ist inst. about midni4lit, the French army encamped in "the envi ro,,s of this Capital, began to bombard the town; and continu e d t h e b ombardment until the evening • of the following- day; d ur i ng w hi c h time, upwards . of one thousand four !Mildred bombs and shells . were thrown into the place. The French cavalry and infantry attacked some of the gates; but the heroic v-dour of the inhabitants and troops of the line succeeded in destroying, by a well-dtretted fire, Which was kept up with uncommon briskness, all who came within the range of their guns. The • ne ighbouring- fields were strewed with the dead liDdies.of the:French. The Patriots bravely main toioed their post, amidst the numberless bombs and shells which struck their batteries. in the afternoon of the Ist instant. the attack Was continued by the French artillery and foot, but they • Were also. routed with very considerable loss. On the 2d inst. at break of day, the attack was renewed at points, ano after having sustained a severe loss, and convinced. themselves of the per severing, valour of the defenders of this capital, the French troops retreated, after a fire, which lasted twelve hours, without intermission, and proved ex tremely destructive to their ranks. The enemy's bombs, shells, and balls, without doing any gon sideranle mischief, merely served to increase the hatred entertained against the enemy, and to remind us of the sacred duties which we owe to our religion, our country, our honatir, and our king. The gallantry displayed by the officers and sol diers, and in particular by the artillerymen, and the officers and troops, who were statictned in the batte ries and points attacked, is beyond all praise., His Excellency the Governor and Captain General, order t o s h ew h ow much he feels concerned m re warding distinguished intrepidity and courage, has diretted the different Commanders to send in a list t l l e t he offi cers an d so ldi ers of t h e regular troops, and masse who have particularly di s ti ngu iifi e d them selves, in order to bestow on them, in his Majestyrs na me, those marks of distinction which their eminent services deserve, and transmit do posteritthe nameself thos e worthy defenders of their county. In ex -I'eciacion of these partiOular and correct r et urns l ie 1 I cas been pleased for the present to promote .Col. ANTONIO TORRIS to the rank of Brigadier Ge tCral, appointed Lieut. Col. MARCO DE PONT Of a t v olunteers of Saragossa, and D in DOMINGO LA, • t'PA Ii volunteers of Estramadura,wiio defended tt,, o a dates of Postillo and Carmen, Colonels in the 4.11) .Y; C+ t. Don SALVADOR CESTA, Major of the of artillery ; and Don GERONII4O PINEIRO, and 'IIP 130sETE,Ensignsof thesa tue corps , Li eutenantS. he two latter arrived in the m orn i ng f rom B arce l ona, an without aking the least repose, immediately as -14/led the command of the batteries of Portal() and C armen, where they covered r v-s with glory. great number of arms have: fallen into Our hands, and in the possession of the French, slain in the ac tion, many precious articles were found, of whica they had robbed the churches and private houses : ..,.vve have taken a great number of prisoners of war. 77- e. : 11 1 the tow n o f Exea 'twenty-rive of the ene m y' s . y 'dry and foot were made prisoners, and, brougat so this capital. ~I . Y an express, which left Valencia on the 30th dune, the pleasing intelligence has been officially „ t 'ceivel, that t h e French aruy, .command e d by ki eneral INIONCEY, having approached the said capi tal on :the 2sth ultimo, the batteries opened upon Mew anti kept up for seven hours with such unre /bitting briskness, that the French were defeated with ituniense slaughter, and the' neighbouring fields" Were covered with their dead, The remains of their retteated in the utmost disorder, exhausted with fatigue and•dtntitute of provisions, with a vast number of wounded, on the road to M'adrid, where the.main body of the army of Valencia awaits them to cut off the retreat of the iew who remain, arid put them to the sword, in return for the acts of violence against this capital. FROM THE OVIEDO GAZETTE. OVIEDO, JULY 13,—The little information we Possess relative to the state of Catalonia, must ren der the following news received here very in teresting : Restrained by the Governors, Alcaldes Mayor,. 111 d Plan a M ayor, _ the _Catalonians succeeded disembarrassing themselves .f their impediments,ori: to their to‘s n words, made a finish of them. In the middl e of June there were already at . the Molinas del Ray 1500 inen from Lerida ; 500 from Turtosa were soon expeetett, and as malay more Vatencians, .10 lay siege to Barcelona. The French in Barcelona are greatly in want of powder and pr ,, vistons. A vessel loaded with pow der, and another with pork, have been. takeu from them. In consequence of this scarcity„ the peoples were in the most critical circunistat.r.i‘., and the French were quite at a loss what to do. If they tried to escape by sea, there was an English Squadron ; if by 'land, there was a cordon of troops drawn from Mon ,tado to Mataro. Their late attempts against the fat of these places, and also that on Montealegre, i'ttnittated rather unpl easant l y f or t h ose heroes, as , 11 3 , fancied they could _take them with o ut any . 4. °llble ; but nothing c an d e p r i ve t h em o f t h e glory cf . haying laid waste the whole plain of Barcelona, all the cultivated fields, all the villages and the -htitches. They have also burnt d own a great num. r of houses in the town s . o f M atore ll, Palleja, Mo lus del Rey, and other places, all within the dis tria of the City of Barcelona. Lastly., we are assur e 4 that a great firing had been heard between Ft gueras, Ampurdan, and San Fernando. The Junta_ t C atalonia have established themselves at Lerida, - 4 order to render the communication with Arragon 4d Valencia more certain. Yesterday., by order of the Suprettie Junta of the the people in all the churches invoked the Divine protection of the God of Armies, in wh ose Omnipotent hands are placed the destinies of 11 " men, th e prosper i ty of empires, and on whose wi ll depend the victories which we desire to obtain- over our enemies. We are of his holy religion, aid valiant soldiers- eagerly fly to meet the enemy,2 T : is ecause the s pi r i t of that religion kindles in their castsar.the pi ous ar d our ' and just determination to ge the temples which. have been - profaned, the r!ghts and property which have been invaded, and the Precious bitt of freedom which has been trans pled upon. We w4o have not the happiness to par ticipat in their daily fatigues, ought. at leist to pro strate ourselves at: the foot pf the altar, cover our selves with sackcloth, and -with -fasting and pray er supplicite our merciful Redeerner to give a complete and easy vietory, and to defend with his shield the precious lives of our dear brethren. Filled with these sentiments of religion and piety, the devout people attended in the Temples. In the Holy Cathedral, and all the other chtirches, were yesterday solemnized the Sacrifice of the Expiation . and a pious Rogation. CUIDAD RODRIGO, JULY 15.—The insorreClion . continues in P o rt uga l. A ccor di ng to the accounts which have been received from the Captain-General of Tras los Montes, dated from his Head-quarters at Lamego, we learn that 'he had defeated the Aiaiy Of LoisoN, when it attempted to pass from Aiweyda over the River Douro, and afterwards through the, neighbourhood of Limego and Troncon: The French lost 600 men, two howitzers, and three cannon, all their baggage, .and 15 caissons richly - loaded. The General has requested that the city of Rodrigo shall produce a diversion to occupy the ene my for four - or five days at Almeyda, to allow hith rime to attack their army, as he had reinforced his own army with 5200 Galicians. • . - EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM ST. SEBAS TIAN, OF THE II TH"JULY, 1808. " Last Saturday, at half past one o'clock in the afternoon; arrived here a person of the name of JOSEPH, and found a city deserted by nine -tenths of its inhabitants who fled before .his arrival to shun his sight. There was not a Single indiVidual Who returned the bows he made in his coach, and . no shouts were. heard, but those of a woman in the market-place, _who, on his passing by, exclaimed " Long live FERDINAND His entry resembled the funeral of a poor deceased in the Hospital.— A certain Urquijo complained of this conduit, but no - attention was paid to his complaints. The Con stitnted Authorities received him with ,the respea which is due to a foreign Prilice, and told the Ur quijo, that _they could not . controul the sentiments of the people. JosaFkr, ,'on taking leave, expressed, his gratitude to the Constituted Authorities, and found no fault with the want of attention on the part of the people, which he attributed to their at-. tachment to the late dynasty, but ueclared, at the same time, that he hoped he should desewe and ob tain the same attachment, in return for the blessings which he should bestow on his subjeets.“ TILE IPP:ATHER. lAddition to the meland'uoly list of events mea sion;d by the eXtraord-: :ry heat of the weather in the neighbourhood it s Hall, given 'in a former Imittbet ot this Paper :—The woman whom . we : mentioned as reported to have died near Ridge ! mont, in Holdernegi, Wai ao elderly person of Bustwick, of the _name of Mary Hord ;, she was making hay for Mr. Stickbey, Of Ryehili, and fail , Mg sick, was cal ried under an haycock. Finding hers& considerably better, .ber companions left her fur about ten uttiutes, and on their return found her a corpse. Au old marl, named Ralph Norton, of- Keyin - ,,b,tin, in Hoiciertiess, was raked ill in the _ field; And died before he cotnu be got home Three soldiers in the Culuberland Militia fell down While in the ranks : two of them soon recovered ; the third was apparently Ma lifeless sate for aconsi derable' time, but is now 'restored.—Mrs. Tindall;' wife o: Mr. Joseph Tindall, of Nfel:v bald, butither; ' having - recovered slowly from her lyih2,-in,took a . ride out on the abOve day, but Vk as compelled to re turn, and dyed in a very.short time. Several pigq, sheep, &:. in different parts •of tile-neighbourhood, . also died iti 6itisequenee of the heat.. At Ever therpe, near North Cave, some sawyers, white at dinner, saw a great smoke arise out tit the saw-pit, and found, on goi6g thither, that the chips, shay-- hip, tire. were in tiatn .s. Attributing this to the nat of some unlucky toys, they put out the fire, and returned into the house; but in a few minutes their assistance was again required. As it was ascertained . that no person had been near the place, the tire is • supposed to have been caused by the reflection of the Sun's rays from the saw, which had been left up in a curved state against one of the sides of the saw-pit.— (Hull Advertiser.) , iihring the heavy storm of rain on Sunday,, as a large party ‘were going through Chelsea -reach, the four Gentlemen who were rowing rose up suddenly to put on -their clothes, and the Ladies shifting their seats at the same time, two of the Gentlemen fell overboard ; one was immediately picked up, but 'the other was drowned, and the body was nut found till yesterday morning. The LORD MAYOR yesterday gave a "magnificent entertainment, at the Mansion-house, to iheir Royal Highnesses the Dukes of KENT, CUMBERLAND, CAMBRIDGE, anal GtOUCKSTER, the Cabinet Mt. nisters, the Deputies from Seville, Asturias, and Galicia, the Portuguese Ambassador, and several Noblemen and Gentlemen of the first distinction. BREAD.—To-day there was no Court of Alder men held : the LORD MAYOR, after inspeeting the returns, ordered the present prices to continue. Mrs. SWOONS has been tor some time upon a visit' to Lord and Lady HARCOURT, at Nuneham, Oxfordshire. Mr. KEsi3LR remains with Lord GUILDFORD, at WI OXIOD. The interesting drama of The Blind Boy was represented last night at the Haymarket, before a very numerous audience, and was so well received that it' will. probably be repeated. Mrs. CHARLES KEMBER performed the part of Edniondi,in which she displayed all that excellence'which afforded so much pleasure during the run of the piece at Covent Garden Theatre. Tnis very pleasing produati(.in was preceded by The .Pranzatsst, of which FA w CE7'T was the hero, and acquitted himself ably as Vapid, and was followed by-the popular and diverting farce of Plot and Counterplot. It is a tolerable specimen of the impudence of Maiter ,JOSEPH BUONAPARTE, the late King of NAPLES, to leave the Kingdom, and yet prescribe to the people the form of Government which they are to adopt when he has no longer any connection with them. Perhaps, however, he begins to think that there is little chalice of his reigning in Spain, and theyetbre he wishes that the new constitution may be put into action by the time he returns, and he be relieved from tha trouble and odium of enforcing it in the first.instance. EXECUTION OV JAMES .01-LCIIIIIST. •GLASGOW, I.—This unferttinate, man died, as he lived, solemnly declaring his innocence of: the crime for which he was to stiller. Soon after one - o'clock he was attet +(led in his room by the Rev. Mr. M‘Lean; of Gorbals, Mr. Brodie, of Dovehill, and Mr. MgDonald, of cEdinburgh. They conversed with him for some this( ; • in the course of which he repeated his declaration of innocenee..in the.strong-. eSt terms. Taking up clue oft he books lying beside Mai' on the belch on 4vlliCh he sat, and holding it before Mr.,M' L ean , be: said, "I am as innocent of the crime for which I at n to suffer as that book is :" then rising from his seat, and going to the window of the room, he poured,out some beer or porter from a bottle into a tumbler, t Ind turning round before he drank it, he said, "I t ever did any injury my life to any man." This gave Mr. l‘l'Leati occasion toobserVe that such a i leclaration would certainly not bear an unqualified irsterpretation ; for .we mi g h t unintentionally a n d unkttowingly injure our neigh bour; every thing wrong; in our oehaviour gave him a bad precedent—and, we might'thus injure him by our bad example. He; then explained, and said,: that lay injury. he meant " violence. Just as Mr. M`Lean held finisi*d prayer, Mr. Gardner, th e J a il or, came Intl) tlie room to tell James that it was ,the time, and it was an unplea- Sant part, of his duty to add,Sthat Jatnes-would allow himself tO be bound. Het expresSed his ready ac quiescence', and,beforeleavtog the r oom , requested that in an y foture devotions moue, of the Clergy.: men should say any thing that looked tike suspicion of his guilt, or dOubt of his vi'traCity in declaring his innocence . . This seemed to, .refer.to a sentence in Mr. M‘Lean's ersver; ,in wbich he had allud e d t o the .embarrassmem and, perplOcityvhica the most candid mind must feel in cons,';deriag the judgment. of an upright Court, as set in eppositioo to his oosi r , live and continued declaration Of iiinocetice. The Clergymen gently hinted to him Mat, it was no' their province to decide oh the one oS- the other, but to take thetnpreeisely as they stood. What passed in the hall 'nay be summed up in a few words. After part ;'saltu was sung, James asked for a glass.of wine limo Mr. Gardner. When the first .prayer, was finished, be requested the atten tion of all present, and in a clear audible voice, " call ing the Lord Provost, and all who heard him, to witness at the tribunal of God that he was innocent ,of the crime for which he was to suffer." After the Second prayer, the Lord Provost told him he might still have a little time longer.. He replied,. "1 ignorant of. the rules of this place--I am teaci go as a sheep to the slaughter." The Lord Provost then suggested that Mr. M`Donald might pray with him. James expressed his satisfaction._ The third prayer brine - over,, Mr. AV Lean requested James would excuse him from going to the scaffold, . to which he readily consented. Before leaving the hall, he r , epeatedly declared his innocence.. Hi s l ast words to the Lord Provost were, "My LOrd,.you are parting with an innocent wan." He appeared on the seaffold at a quarter past three preeiseiy, decently dressed in black. There he ael ed just as he had done in the hall, calling attention and declaring his innocence almost in the same words. - Indeed, before he left the hall, he said, he thought it was his 'duty to do so, as it might be the means of 'saving some other innocent man; and ask, ed permission from the Lord Provost to speak to this effeet ; after singing two portions. of the 51st and iogd.psalms, both seleaeo by James himself, and Whieb he sung: with a clear and steady voice, he, with the most astonishin firmness and coniposnre, mounted the platform, and at et) minutes past'thrce Was tanoched. into eternity. After hanging about Half an hoUr lie was cut down, and his body sent to the Professor of AnittOmy for disseaion. The im,nense multitude assembled to witness this sad and awful Spe6tacle, poyverfully •aemonstrates the mildness and benignity of the laws of this happy land.. While in many countries, capital punishments are so ffequent as - seal Cely to attract the attention of tfze passing traveller or by -stander, they so rarely occur in thisequarter . of the globe, as universally to gather the inhabitants far and near.. Such was the case yesterday. To. the east, south and west, as far almost as the eye could reach, the streets and win dows were lined ,Vifh all ranks, sexes, and ages.-, Never indeed do we recoiled observing a greater concourse of people assembled on any similar occa- $lOll. DUBLIN, JULY 21 .—Tuesday . a splendid breakfast was given by tier Grace the Docliess'of RICHMOND, at the Lodge in the Park, to a numerous assemblage of the titst distinCtion. Her Grace, with that bene volence' which has always m ar k e d h er conduct, .and in ord((r to" render pleasure subservient to objects of humanity, introduced a kind of fair or market, at which, in marquees pitched for the porpo.se, a great variety of articles, wrought by children of different' charitable institutions, were exposed for sale. Ti le beneficent intention of t he' N o bl e H ostess was cheer fully seconded by her guests, and the stock went off at prices and with a rapidity highly pleasing to all concerned. Saturday morning the Asp Custom-house Lugger, of Deal, carne into Dover, the Crew having in the course of the night been on shore at Deal, in their boats, accompanied by the boats from the Nimble Custom-house Cutter, of Deal. They had been in pursuit of some Smuggling Boats which had gone on shore, but on landing, they were fired on by a party from the shore, th e consequence o f which was, that two of the people in the Custom house boats, Ellis and Bruce, were killed on the spot, and a third is so badly wounded as to lie withouthopes of recovery, having received two shots; two others are slightly wounded. Soon after the lugger came in, a Jury was summoned, who returned a yerdiEt of—lkitful bipersons unknown. Two boats and a part Of the goods were, however, taken ; the smugglers. made their escape. A very alarming . fire...broke out nn Saturday, at Welton, Bucks, at the house of Captain DUNAVER, which consumed the mansion, together with furni ture to the amount of se vera l t h ousan d pounds. It was occasioned by. a beam 'which communicated to a chimney taking fire. It was supposed that.the beam had been on fire several days, and it broke, out in the boards of a' first floor bed-room. The house was on tire before the conflagration was dis covered, as it happened when the - family were in .bed. Prov. - identialiy the persons in the house escaped with considerable difficulty, LAW RBPORT. KING's BENTC'n, (it Loi-lAT.t;, ICILY 23, SITTING,'A FT:ER THRbid . . SIR J(.3IIN . CAI3R against HOOD AND ANOTREE, This ryas :an aai;on for a libel accompanied ,vith cartmturo M 4. GA RA' , W Ina:JO:Alt Epic spetf‘h on behalf of the.Piainlitf; of;who e abiliti es ani c:)a • ra&er bespoke very . highly as did the ATTORNEY. GENERAL for the Defendants. i • • Lord 'l-LENEOROUGH gave it as' Ilk O~li:iion drat the 'aelion could .not be, maintained re a polo( f -brw verdict was therefore given for the•Th.fell,l. ants.--:-"The Duke of Bedford, Earl Modutnori Viscount Valentia, and: other persons of r ink d charatter attended on behalf-,o€ Sir John . Catr. COURT OF COMMON 'LEAS, lULY SLANDEII f FLOWER V. CLAYTON. The Plaintiff in this case is a Printer ; the De fendant , is a Dissenting Clergyman. The aetiou was for Slander, to which the Defendant pleaded the general issue—Nat Mr. Serjeant SHEntERD for the Plaintiff stated ; that his Client was the Duferidatit's uncif,:, and brought the aaion Merely for the purpose of check ing the repetition of the sland& against him, and Clearing his charaEter.. The words on which the adion, was . founded, were spoken upon an .occasion when the Defendant was asked, whethor lie had read a publication of the Plaintiff; The reply was, "to ,t Mr. Flower was so baser man, that he never rea;f, any of his publications--'h at he had been guilt / Of forgery, and-that his mether•had perjured herself in order, to save his life, by swearing that the wrnieg was lier's.7—The Defendanthad put no lustitication on the record, which he might have done if he coma have proved the charge to be well founded, bpt had ;merely pleaded, that he had not spokeu the word , . Qf that plea, however, he would soon cleprivce hi:p, by calling two respe&able wituesses to whom the words had been addressed. Mr. Flight, a coal merchant, at Hackney; was then called, and stated, that in July last year, he saw the Defendant at Hackney, and asked hint-whe ther he had read a publication of his uncle, Mr. Rower (this it appeared, was a new edition of Mr. Robinson of Cambridge's works, to which the Plain , :a tiff had prefixed : a life of Mr. Robinson.) "l'he lJe fenclitint replied, that he had nob; and, in the course of the conversation,• introduced the- charge of the Plaintiff having been guilty of forgery, and his mo ther having saved him from the etfe&s ef the. law by swearing the 'writing to be her's. This was coin , municated to him in confidenc e , an d h e never said a word about the Matter, as it alluded to an old fairOy affair that had taken place twenty years ago, nil he understood that it had been repeated by the affenda ant himself to Mr. Palmer, in February last. In consequence of this he waited upon him; and desires ed a ft4rther explanations The Defendant said he had papers to prove what .he asserted ; but alter wards called for the Witness, and stated, that it was not forgery of which Mr. Flower had been guilty, but an offence equally heinous, as he had gone to his mother with a delibetttelie in his mouth, and got a power from her to transfer her property from one stock to another ; and that when the old lady was proceeding in -her carriage to the Bank, to receive her. .dividend, she was stopped and informed, that, all her property in the funds had vanished. On his cross-examination, he admitted that he had under . j stood that the Plaintiff, i n th e ear l y part of his .14'4, had been,astock-jobber, and had lust a great deal of his own and his mother's money ; but he had :Oways conceived that the speculations with (be niothei - 's . property had b een w i t h h er own consent. He also admitted that he had heard of the circumstance, of the mother's being about to.proceed to, receive her dividend, and that she • had been for some days di s • traded on hearing of her loss, Mr. Palmer, a Di s s ent i n g Clergyman, deposed, that he had asked the Defendant, in February last, whether he had seen Mr. Mower's publication t and the refle6tions contained in it against him, Mr, J. Clayton, and his family. The Defendant re plied that he very little regarded what Mr. Flower might say, as' he had forged his mother's baud. writing, &c.• He had never told this to ahy but Mr. Flight, whose opinion he wished to have, as he suspected there must ha.e been soihe mistake. In about four days afterwards Mr. Clayton had called for him, and exPlained that it was not a forgery, but a fraud, of which the Plaintiff had.been guilty. 'The nature of this fraud he communicated, as had been stated by the,other Witness. He believed the cbarge would not have been made by - the Defendant, bau it not • been for his having said that Mr. Flower had made refiedions on him and his family. . Mr. Serjeant LENS, for the Defendant, pressed this last circumstance strongly. As, to the iu,tifica tion, it was impossible that his Client could justift the charge of forgery,.which was the only one on the record. He had been in a mistake about that ; but• he asked the Jury whether, if the adios) had been brought for a charge of fraud, the Detendatit would not have had a complete justification_ - or he pat it to theM, whether, even upon the evidence adduced by the Plaintiff. himself, th 4 were not of opiuion that a gross fraud .had been pradlsed on the mother, by which she - had : been reduced from considerable af fluence to beggary. But he submitted to the Judge, whether, even under the charge of forgery, explain ed and qualified as it was, the Plaintiff could fruve - a verdict.' .. If he could, the smaliest damages would suffice. The Plaihtiff, he thought, had judged very unfortunately for himself in coming into Court' at all.. Sir J. MANSFIELD, C. J. oWerved; that if the explanation had immediately followed the charge of forgery, the Plaintiff cbuld not support himself upba that ground ; but as a period of eight tuontiiS ,d intervened, be could not say that the accusation had . not been for forgery. If the Jury should be of opi.. nion that the charge of forgery had been proved, they must. find for the Plaintiff, as no justification of that had been attempted. The question then would be as to ,the damages, which they would award, upon a full consideration of all the circumstances.— Verdiel fur the Plaintiff—painages 40s. It is no wonder that a rupture should have hap pened between the Noble Pair whose names appear ed recently in a Court of Justice, since the Plaintiff's' Counsel acknowledged that for some tine tug-; ;14t1 separatebeds.